Recently, a brigade under the 47th Group Army of the Army of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLAA) carried out an actual-troop confrontation drill at night in the depth of the Helan Mountains, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of west China. (Chinamil.com.cn/Wang Chuanshun)

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